Photo: Nyttend · Public domainSummit Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Jobs and income earn Summit Township C−; getting around on foot earns it B−. Employers in Summit Township report 228 jobs, against 779 working residents. Measured by household income, Summit Township is behind 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Summit Township
Inside Summit Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Summit Township is better than 16% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Summit Township’s grade.
Unemployment (7.5%) is left out: Summit Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Summit Township could be anywhere from D to C+.
The daily flow of workers through Summit Township
On a workday 763 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 212 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Summit Township on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
16% of working residents work in Meadville
Where Summit Township clocks in
16% of workers
11% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
A place that makes things: 32% of Summit Township’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Summit Township, 2013 → 2023: 60 → 228. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Summit Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Summit Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Summit Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 579 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Half of Summit Township commutes less than 12 miles
About 18% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Summit Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Summit Township is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 642 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.0% of Summit Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Summit Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Summit Township next to U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500: 4,360th of 5,656 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 36 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,358 | Greybull WY | 1,700 | $65K | 12.0% | 2.2% | 25% | C− |
| 4,359 | Pike Bay Township MN | 1,778 | $73K | 22.9% | 15.0% | 19% | C− |
| 4,360 | Summit Township PA | 1,877 | $56K | 13.5% | 7.5% | 2% | C− |
| 4,361 | Catlettsburg KY | 1,722 | $38K | 20.1% | 9.8% | 7% | C− |
| 4,362 | Braham MN | 1,789 | $59K | 16.1% | 5.0% | 6% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Summit Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns next door employ 18% of Summit Township
The biggest share goes to Vernon Township (11%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Summit Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summit Township | – | C− | B− | 28 min | $56,375 |
| Sadsbury Township | 7% | B− | B− | 25 min | $70,000 |
| Pine Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Summerhill Township | under 2% | D | C− | 26 min | $59,219 |
| Vernon Township | 11% | B+ | B | 19 min | $76,030 |
| Conneaut Township | under 2% | C− | B− | 23 min | $57,933 |
Same-state neighbors only. Pine Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Summit Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Summit Township: questions
What is the median household income in Summit Township?
$56,375 (±$7,919) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Summit Township?
13.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Summit Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Summit Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Meadville (16%, 10 mi), Vernon Township (11%, 7 mi), Sadsbury Township (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Summit Township walkable?
Summit Township is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Summit Township without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Summit Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Summit Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.